The inter-ethnic dimensions of afrocentricity : a methatheoritical framework for intercultural agency and psychological fortification
Dhakir Abdullah (Author), Indiana University, Bloomington Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington (Degree granting institution)
The following exposition adds to the literature on one of Africana Studies most regarded as well as animadverted theoretical approaches. Namely, this work seeks to provide commentary on the transcultural dimensions of Molefi Asante's theory of Afrocentricity; explicitly, the intercultural dimensions of one of the theory's core conceptual frameworks i.e. "centrism." More specifically, this project illustrates how Afrocentricity has provided a theoretical configuration that can and has been adopted by cultural groups outside of the black experience as orienting platforms from which to establish their own cultural centeredness. With this in view, we focus primarily on how Afrocentricity provides a schema for the eventual articulation of Asiacentricity. However, the present writer also wishes to make an intervention in the existing discourse by bridging the world of terror management theory, a social psychological theory, with that of Afrocentric and Asiacentric research. The aforestated proposition will be discussed in the future directions portion of this paper as the present study is a preliminary work that lays the foundation for that later study
Thesis, Dissertation, English, 2020
Indiana University ; ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, [Bloomington, Indiana], Ann Arbor, 2020